This - even for millennials like me a who are too young to remember its production years. The Countach helped define ‘80s rad culture that had a revival a few years ago (note how everything ‘80s from fashion to music trends to TV has been recycled over the past decade).

I think we can all be thankful for what the union movement accomplished back then, but this is 2021 and Tesla is a major US-based automaker. Let’s be real about why Uncle Joe did this - many big unions in 2021 function as a Democratic fundraising machine as much as anything.

Ashamed to say I messed around with this a little in high school.

Can’t have one without the other. I’d rather tolerate stupidity from the NYT than having the NYT be a mouthpiece for the state.

I KINDA see where you’re coming from in theory...but let’s be realistic: 99% of drivers aren’t Lewis or even your local SCCA autocross champ. They suck already. And they’re probably driving distracted. Add three drinks on top to slow their reaction time, and problems occur. There has to be a standard inebriation point …

I have a feeling that in 30 years Uber will join WeWork in the pantheon of Silicon Valley hubris and hype cautionary tales.  Their entire near-term business model has cratered now that labor is scarce and employees are demanding higher wages.

Bingo. This is reason #8445 I am hoping/praying that carbon-neutral ICE fuels can work, and that politicians take their heads out their virtue-signaling anuses and focus on CO2 reduction, rather than blindly mandating EVs.

They’ve been wildly profitable without an SUV. The Purosangue will be gravy on top + extra $$$ to inject into EV and other next-gen powertrain R&D. It’s not a matter of survival (early 2000s Porsche with the Cayenne or modern Aston with the DBX) or about needing to insure against wild swings in sales volumes (Lambo…

Amusing. Sounds like Toyota is tired of its most famous off-roader becoming Hellfire and AC130 fodder. They admittedly go boom nicely when loaded down with four terrorists and a full tank of gas.

Agreed they are ugly and pointless...but were I told to buy an ultra-luxury crossover, I’d probably run toward a DBX. Easily the most attractive of the bunch, beautiful interior and apparently drives much better than it has a right to.

For some that may be true, but for many it isn’t. Aston’s over-production / depreciation problems were so bad that one of Tobias Moers’ first moves upon becoming CEO was to cut production. McLaren has faced the same problems and is watching production volumes more closely. I’ve spoken to owners about this. Complaints…

I haven’t read into why they exited the market, but based on PistonHeads posts it likely had something to with catastrophic mechanical failures, bits of car falling off, owners getting locked inside their own vehicles, etc...TVR is the ultimate British cottage industry car, for better and worse.

This. Everyone I know 6-1 and above think they’re tight. The ND is a little better to be fair.

IMHO no reason NOT to buy a preowned Rolls, Bentley, Macca or Aston, unless you want to spec a car exactly to your choosing (many do, though new vehicles inventories seem to all have the same 5-6 color combos). Depreciation on those cars is savage compared to Ferrari and Lamborghini, with the biggest hit coming up…

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I’m a history buff. The parallels between Xi’s China in 2021 and Hitler’s Germany circa 1935-1936 are eerie. The CCP isn’t the new USSR. It might be something worse.

This.

I’ll grant you that point if the buyer 1.) absolutely needs to buy now (i.e. old car got totaled, blew engine or transmission, etc.), 2.) has the cash flow to justify a $13-15k car, and 3.) plans to drive this long enough to soak up whatever depreciation hit they’ll take.

False. Utter stupidity unless this is many thousands under market value. The moronic rush by every American with a paycheck to buy a car just as manufacturers are struggling with the chip shortage boggles my mind. Whoever pays close to market value for a Dodge Journey is going to a.) be stuck with a mediocre care, and…

Hate to pour stale beer on the conversation...but after poking around, the best answer seems to “Don’t buy ANY CAR right now, because (save for some collectibles) it will be 20-30% cheaper a year from now, when production picks back up and people stop raiding their home equity and blowing their Covid checks to buy…